Over The Barrel - Root Beer
Rhinelander Brewing Company
- From:
- Rhinelander Brewing Company
- Wisconsin, United States
- Style:
- Herb and Spice Beer
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.62 | pDev: 14.64%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jan 08, 2018
- Added:
- Jun 01, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Victory_Sabre1973 from Minnesota
3.3/5 rDev -8.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.3/5 rDev -8.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Pours a dark brown color from the bottle. Really no head.
The nose is, well, root beer. That's what it smells like.
Taste - It does taste like root beer, but a week one. Quite bland.
Some carbonation feel, in spite of the lack of head, but a bit watery.
Nothing special. Nothing recommended.
Jan 08, 2018The nose is, well, root beer. That's what it smells like.
Taste - It does taste like root beer, but a week one. Quite bland.
Some carbonation feel, in spite of the lack of head, but a bit watery.
Nothing special. Nothing recommended.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.2/5 rDev -11.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.2/5 rDev -11.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
330ml bottle, another single from the helpful folks at the Century Park Liquor Depot. You want my feedback? Here's my feedback!
This beer pours a clear, dark orange-brick brown colour, with one finger of loosely foamy, and of course just fizzy tan head, which blows off in a mere moment, leaving nothing resembling lace in the vicinity of the glass.
It smells like kind of musty root beer (the sort where they proclaim to use sarsaparilla), gritty and faintly grainy caramel and corn malt, further ephemerally oaky vanilla notes, and nothing in the way of hop bitterness. The taste is rather saccharine 'artisanal' root beer (vanilla, muddled earthy spice, dusty vegetal root, and dark sugar syrup), some very obfuscated and bland mixed maltiness, and perhaps a hint of the 11-proof alcohol hovering about, an indication of the adult nature herein.
The bubbles are fairly robust in their palate-protecting frothiness, the body an adequate, sugar-buoyed medium weight, and generally smooth, with a weak airy creaminess being forcibly extracted from the carefree A&W days of my youth. It finishes sweet, in a gently spiced vanilla and caramel lingering morass.
Hmmmm, it seems like it's almost more difficult to analyze root beer, than solely the real thing (much less practice, I guess). At any rate, this ain't half-bad, as noted, it's more complex and flavourful than your standard grocery store offerings of the world (maybe not Barq's), but not quite up there with the more craft-y versions. Buuuuuuut - it's got booze, so, well, it's a toss-up, then.
Jun 01, 2016This beer pours a clear, dark orange-brick brown colour, with one finger of loosely foamy, and of course just fizzy tan head, which blows off in a mere moment, leaving nothing resembling lace in the vicinity of the glass.
It smells like kind of musty root beer (the sort where they proclaim to use sarsaparilla), gritty and faintly grainy caramel and corn malt, further ephemerally oaky vanilla notes, and nothing in the way of hop bitterness. The taste is rather saccharine 'artisanal' root beer (vanilla, muddled earthy spice, dusty vegetal root, and dark sugar syrup), some very obfuscated and bland mixed maltiness, and perhaps a hint of the 11-proof alcohol hovering about, an indication of the adult nature herein.
The bubbles are fairly robust in their palate-protecting frothiness, the body an adequate, sugar-buoyed medium weight, and generally smooth, with a weak airy creaminess being forcibly extracted from the carefree A&W days of my youth. It finishes sweet, in a gently spiced vanilla and caramel lingering morass.
Hmmmm, it seems like it's almost more difficult to analyze root beer, than solely the real thing (much less practice, I guess). At any rate, this ain't half-bad, as noted, it's more complex and flavourful than your standard grocery store offerings of the world (maybe not Barq's), but not quite up there with the more craft-y versions. Buuuuuuut - it's got booze, so, well, it's a toss-up, then.
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